One World or None

William C. Berman. William Fulbright and the Vietnam War: The Dissent of a Political Realist. Kent: Kent State University Press, 1988. x + 235 pp. Wesley T. Wooley. Alternatives to Anarchy: American Supranationalism Since World War II. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988. xi + 244 pp. Reviewing William Fulbright's The Arrogance of Power in the New York Times Book Review in 1967, Max Frankel predicted, in an otherwise unsympathetic review, that the moving critique of American foreign policy toward Southeast Asia and of American political culture by the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee portended "the alienation of a great many thoughtful citizens toward their government."1 In a more sympathetic review in the Washington Post, Ronald Steel observed that "there is deep anguish throughout the nation over the use of power" (Berman, 77-78). William Berman rightly counters the criticism of Fulbright's views by stressing the extent to which Fulbright remained within the mainstream of American foreign policy tradition, combining a global outlook, a "realist's concern with power and a conservative's desire for stability and order" (78). Both Berman's and Wooley's studies perform the critically important task of bringing the postwar generations' dissent against the narrow, destructive nationalism of American policy makers into the mainstream of political thought in the United States

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